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Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Meme: Top 106 books tagged "Unread" on LT

OK, so I just read about this on LT's blog. Apparently the idea is to look at the top 106 books on LT that have been tagged "Unread" and see where you stand with that 106. (Why 106? I have no idea. It's just the magical number.)

Anyway, here's mine:

The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide by Douglas Adams **own and read**

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke **own and read**

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Life of Pi : a novel by Yann Martel

Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray **own and haven't read**

The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien **own and haven't read**

Ulysses by James Joyce **I tried to read this one**

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Catch-22 a Novel by Joseph Heller **own and haven't read**

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle I) by Neal Stephenson

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Reading Lolita in Tehran: a Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

The Kor'an by Anonymous

Moby Dick by Herman Melville **I read this for school**

The Odyssey by Homer **I read this for school**

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer **I read this for school**

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo **own and haven't read**

The Historian: a Novel by Elizabeth Kostova **I tried to read this one**

Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand **own and haven't read**

The History of Tom Jones, a foundling by Henry Fielding **I think I read this for school**

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner **own and haven't read**

The Iliad by Homer **I read this for school**

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf **own and haven't read**

Emma by Jane Austen

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne **own and read**

Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond

Dracula by Bram Stoker **own and read**

Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens **own and haven't read**

The Once and Future King by T. H. White

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Oryx and Crake : a novel by Margaret Atwood

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens **own and haven't read**

Labyrinth by Kate Mosse **own and haven't read**

Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe

Underworld by Don DeLillo

Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck **own and haven't read**

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte **own and haven't read**

The Gormenghast trilogy by Mervyn Peake

The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells **own and read**

Jude the Bbscure by Thomas Hardy

The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce **own and haven't read**

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri **own and read**

The Inferno by Dante Alighieri **own and read**

Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand **I tried to read this one**

Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

The Poisonwood Bible: a Novel by Barbara Kingsolver

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay: a Novel by Michael Chabon

The Personal History of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens **own and haven't read**

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

OK, so of the 106, I own and have read 8 (although I can say that I have read the top 2 "Unread" books on LT, and one of them (Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell) is one of my favorite books, and there are 5 that I read back in school that I do not own. I own and have not read 23 (I think 3 of which I've tried to start and one of them is in my TBR pile right now). There are some on that list that, while I know they are considered classic and that I should read, I know that I will probably never get around to reading. There are too many books that I do want to read and not enough hours in a day to get those read, let alone adding in books I know I should be reading, but have no interest in. **le sigh**